Originally Posted by
TMOliver
To those with sea time, "SOS" is something else, almost like "Sloppy Joes",served over toast for breakfast. Chipped Beef, now available in vacuum packets instead of jars, was used for "Foreskins on Toast" in the wardrooms in which I dined.
Then there was the classic Saturday breakfast when "Captain's Inspection" was scheduled forthe ship's spaces before Liberty Call. Baked beans and hard-boiled eggs. Followed by an afternoon/evening on the beach drinking beer, the local level of flatulence exceeded allowable levels.
Odd you say that. My father was Navy and he always called it "SOS", though he would just say the three words and not the acronym. I have never until now heard it called "Foreskins on Toast", nor did I ever think calling it "S&%! on a Shingle" would sound more appetizing.